Come, behold the works of the Lord,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am God:

I will be exalted among the heathen,

I will be exalted in the earth.

The Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge.

PSALM XLVII.

O CLAP your hands, all ye people;
Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

For the Lord most high is terrible;

He is a great King over all the earth.

He shall subdue the people under us,
And the nations under our feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us,

The excellency of Jacob whom he loved.
God is gone up with a shout,

The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises:

Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth:

Sing ye praises with understanding.

God reigneth over the heathen:

God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together, Even the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.

PSALM XLVIII.

GREAT is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In the city of our God, in the mountain of his
holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

As we have heard, so have we seen

In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will establish it for ever.

We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.

According to thy name, O God,

So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth;
Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Let mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of thy judgments.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her:

Tell the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks,

Consider her palaces;

That ye may tell it to the generation following: For this God is our God for ever and ever:

He will be our guide even unto death.

PSALM XLIX.

HEAR this, all ye people;

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high,

Rich and poor, together.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom;

And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

I will incline mine ear to a parable:

I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,

When the iniquity of heels shall compass

me about?

my

They that trust in their wealth,

And boast themselves in the multitude of their

riches;

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him:

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, And it ceaseth forever:)

That he should still live forever,

And not see corruption:

For he seeth that wise men die,

Likewise the fool and the brutish person perish,

And leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,

And their dwelling-places to all generations;

They call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

This their way is their folly.

Yet their posterity approve their sayings;

Like sheep they are laid in the grave;

Death shall feed on them;

And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;

And their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of

the grave:

For he shall receive me.

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,

When the glory of his house is increased; For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him. Though while he lived he blessed his soul:

And men will praise thee, when thou doest
well to thyself.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light.

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not,
Is like the beasts that perish.

PSALM L.

THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken,
And called the earth

From the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God hath shined.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:
A fire shall devour before him,

And it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

He shall call to the heavens from above,

And to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me;

Those that have made a covenant with me by
sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness:
For God is judge himself.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify against thee:
I am God, even thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices,

Or thy burnt offerings, to have been contin-
ually before me.

I will take no bullock out of thy house,
Nor he-goats out of thy folds.

For every beast of the forest is mine,

And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the fowls of the mountains:

And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:

For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls,

Or drink the blood of goats?

Offer unto God thanksgiving;

And pay thy vows unto the Most High;

And call upon me in the day of trouble:

I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:

And to him that ordereth his conversation aright Will I show the salvation of God.